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Equus Study Guide

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by Peter Shaffer
About 84 pages (25,188 words)
Equus (play) Summary

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Act 1, Scenes 19, 20 and 21 Summary

These three scenes build the action to its climax, in which Dalton's conviction that Alan has been riding the horses at night is confirmed in dramatic, chilling fashion.

Scene 19 - Alan comes to Dysart's office for a therapy session. They apologize to each other, albeit in backhanded fashion, for their previous argument; and Dysart offers to play a new game. Alan says he doesn't want to, but Dysart convinces him to give it a try. Alan sits and Dysart begins to play his new game, "Blink". It soon becomes clear that Dysart is actually hypnotizing Alan. When he's fully under, Dysart leads him (in memory) back to the scene at the beach, where Alan recounts his non-verbal conversation with the young horseman's horse. The horse refers to himself.....

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